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Victor Santodomingo, Windows Live Movie Maker Engine Development Lead, joined me in the studio to demonstrate the new Movie Maker in action and to discuss how his team developed a brand new engine that processes in 3D space to take advantage of Direct X capabilities
and GPU effects.

If you have any comments or questions about the new Windows Live Movie Maker please leave then in the comments section below and we will follow up with Victor and his team.

if you click on the video, the videos tab would be visible. The first control in the tab is the video volume. Similarly, if you are under an audio or selected an audio, the audio tab will be visible and it has a volume control. The video, audio, text are
contextual tabs. Meaning they will be visible if there is a video, audio or text at the current playhead position.

Reason being, my school uses Outlook Live, and Exchange 2010 only supports the full experience on Safari on the Mac. Kinda lame. It works perfectly fine in Chrome on Windows. The things I have to do to use the browser I want...

new version looks awsome there is one thing i'd really change though..
the videoishorizontally aligned to the top of the window.. When i expand a ribbon group like the transitions for example, it covers the preview video and again because its top aligned, resizing the window doesnt
help. on a high res monitor the bottom part of the screen is completly unused..

also, perhpas a minor detail but it would be cool to be able to set a point to zoom to in the Pan and zoom, and also be able to set the amount of zoom..

Does Windows Live Movie Maker encode using h264, mp4, expression encoder, etc.? Does it embed the encoded video into a silverlight player in case user wants it to (for videos encoded using expression encoder)?

Nice work. Downloaded and started using. It does make things quicker. I was also struck how snappy it felt, even on my old laptop. Clicking stuff stopped what ever was going on quickly and moved to new thing as expected. Could not figure out how to
remove system movie maker as I don't need both. Second, I can appreciate the easy factor, however, even for simple videos, I would have a need for multiple sound tracks. 1 voice over and 1 background music track above any sound that may or may not be in
a video would seem a common need and ability to mix levels between any of them. Also don't see any way to record a voice over (i.e.Narrate) as was possible with Windows Movie Maker.

Too bad I can't use it yet, the Canon 5D Mark II generates H264 HD 30fps mov files, but I haven't found a codec yet which is supported by Move Maker. Expression Encoder 3 does support it using the Cineform Neo Player codec, but it really lacks a rotate by
90 degrees function.

Anyway, I'm hoping that either Canon will release a compatible codec or Move Maker could support this variation of the H264 codec

"also, perhaps a minor detail but it would be cool to be able to set a point to zoom to in the Pan and zoom, and also be able to set the amount of zoom.."

One of the best free products Microsoft ever released was Photostory 3. It has the ability to select a point and a zoom level at which to start and end. It's a great feature that I'm hoping to see in WLMM.

Creating automovies is fine but I usually want to choose where the pan or zoom starts and ends because you really can't trust software to make the most creative choice all the time.

Q1: Does Windows Live Movie Maker encode using h264, mp4, expression encoder, etc.? Does it embed the encoded video into a silverlight player in case user wants it to (for videos encoded using expression encoder)?

A: Currently, the only supported encode format is WMV.

Q2: I've got a music track on top of the audio of a video, how do I control the volume of either one... ie, how do I adjust the audio of the video... and how do I control the volume of the music track?

A: The Video Tools and Music Tools tabs have volume controls for the respective tracks.

Q3: Is it possible to change the preview and clip orientation so that the clips show below the preview, similar to "film strip" Explorer view?

A: Interesting suggestion, but not supported in this version.

Q4: How do I uninstall the old Windows Movie Maker (XP/Vista etc.)?

A: No official way to uninstall the old Windows Movie Maker via control panel, however Bing search will reveal some user-contributed suggestions.

Q5: Can I have a background audio track AND narration that I add using a microphone? If so how do I do this?

A: Separate audio and narration tracks are not supported in this version, although you could add a narration track as your single audio track.

Q6: Is there support for Canon 5D Mark II h.264 videos?

A: h.264 codec is supported on Win7 Home Premium and above.

Q7: Is there a rotate video by 90/180/270 degrees option?

A: The Home tab on the ribbon has rotation buttons.

Re h.264 support on non-Windows 7 machines - I'm checking in with some video/codec gurus to find out more.

@PeterF I haven't had a chance yet but I have my camera with me in the office today so might go shoot something and see if I can import it. Regardless I will let the team know you are unable to import on Windows 7

I belive I have found a reproducible bug when using the *.wtv files that Windows 7 Media Center Produces for recorded TV shows.

The can be imported into WLMM and edited but once you try to Encode the end video. It just pauses on the beginning of the progress bar and the program must be killed via Task Manager! Cancel button does not work. I have tried this on two test systems.

It would be disapointing of WLMM cannot use this file as some people may obtain Home Videos from camcorders this way. The only product that seem to deal with this file format successfully is the old Windows Movie Maker included in Windows Vista. (NOT Windows
Movie Maker 2.6!)

It would be nice to have an "Advanced" button for the final encode. Just some simple advanced options for WMV like: Output Resolution, Bitrate, and Dual / Single Pass encoding options. This program comes 95% of the way to fullfilling my requirments for simple
editing tasks and so far I love it!

@PeterF "Actually it can do that. So what would I need to capture it?"

Cool. So what I would do is get Encoder 3 and a Blackmagic hdmi card to capture and encode (or stream) the live feed. I am not 100% sure yet the blackmagic works with encoder 3, but looking at the boards for someone that has it working. So your saying
the 5D outputs the live stream down the hdmi without recording it first? Many cameras can record then output via hdmi, but I have not found one that outputs the live feed. tia

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